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Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610954
Pages 804 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Xiaodi Yan Xiaodi Yan
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web APIs 2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs 3. Chapter 3: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1) 4. Chapter 4: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2) 5. Chapter 5: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals) 6. Chapter 6: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Entity Relationships) 7. Chapter 7: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips) 8. Chapter 8: Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core 9. Chapter 9: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 – Unit Testing) 10. Chapter 10: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Integration Testing) 11. Chapter 11: Getting Started with gRPC 12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with GraphQL 13. Chapter 13: Getting Started with SignalR 14. Chapter 14: CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions 15. Chapter 15: ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices 16. Chapter 16: Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability 17. Chapter 17: Cloud-Native Patterns 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Fundamentals of Web APIs

In today’s world, web APIs are the backbone of the web. Millions of people use web APIs every day to purchase commodities, book a flight, get weather information, and more. In this chapter, we will learn about the fundamentals of web APIs. You might be wondering why we will start with the fundamental concepts. The answer is simple – we need to understand the basic concepts of web APIs before we build one.

This chapter introduces a couple of different web API styles, such as a REST-based API, a remote procedure call (RPC)-based API, a GraphQL API, and a real-time API. We will also learn about how to design them. If you would like to start developing a web API, feel free to jump to the next chapter.

In this chapter, we’ll be covering the following topics:

  • What is a web API?
  • What is a REST API?
  • Designing a REST-based API
  • What are RPC and GraphQL APIs?
  • What is a real-time API?

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